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Title:
Complete stories
Author:
Lispector, Clarice., author.
Uniform Title:
Works. English
Publication Information:
New York : New Directions, 2015.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 645 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
From one of the greatest modern writers, these stories, gathered from the nine collections published during her lifetime, follow an unbroken time line of success as a writer, from her adolescence to her death bed.
Language:
English
Contents:
Glamour and grammar / First stories: Triumph ; Obsession ; Fever dream ; Jimmy and I ; Interrupted story ; Escape ; Excerpt ; Letters to Hermengardo ; Gertrudes asks for advice ; Another couple of drunks -- Family ties: Daydream and drunkeness of a young lady ; Love ; A chicken ; Imitation of the rose ; Happy birthday ; Smallest woman in the world ; Dinner ; Preciousness ; Family ties ; Beginnings of a fortune ; Mystery in São Cristóvão ; Crime of the mathematics teacher ; Buffalo -- Foreign legion: Disasters of Sofia ; Sharing of loaves ; Message ; Monkeys ; Egg and the chicken ; Temptation ; Journey to Petrópolis ; Solution ; Evolution of a myopia ; Fifth story ; A sincere friendship ; Obedient ones ; Foreign legion -- Back of the drawer: Burned sinner and the harmonious angels ; Profile of chosen beings ; Inaugural adress ; Mineirinho -- Covert joy: Covert joy ; Remnants of carnival ; Eat up, my son ; Forgiving God ; One hundred years of forgiveness ; A hope ; Servant ; Boy in pen and ink ; A tale of so much love ; Waters of the world ; Involuntary incarnation ; Two stories my way ; First kiss -- Where were you at night: In search of a dignity ; Departure of the train ; Dry sketch of horses ; Where were you at night ; Report on the thing ; Manifesto of the city ; Conjurings of Dona Frozina ; That's where I'm going ; Dead man in the sea at Urca ; Silence ; A full afternoon ; Such gentleness ; Soul storm ; Natural life -- Via Crucis of the body: Explanation ; Miss Algrave ; Body ; Via Crucis ; Man who showed up ; He drank me up ; For the time being ; Day after day ; Sound of footsteps ; Before the Rio-Niterói Bridge ; Praça Mauá -- Pig Latin ; Better than to burn ; But it's going to rain -- Vison of splendor: Brasília -- Final stories: Beauty and the Beast or The enormous wound ; One day less -- Useless explanation -- Translator's note
ISBN:
9780811219631
Format :
Book